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9/11Aerial Navigation: the practicability of traveling pleasantly and safely from New-York to California in three days
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- Publication date
- 1849
- Usage
- Public Domain Mark 1.0
- Topics
- Hot Air Balloon, Aerial Travel, Porter, Rufus, Rufus Porter
- Collection
- opensource
- Language
- English
- Item Size
- 40.9M
Born in West Boxford in 1792, Rufus Porter was a prolific inventor. Though the steam-powered airship he proposed here never made it off of the ground, it was a hallmark of Industrial era inventiveness.
